About engineering course: IT

IT (Information Technology)

Rank of Preference by many students: #4

What is IT?

As discussed earlier, IT is different to CSE in reality. IT talks about how you manage information and the technology you shall use to communicate information. When you are designing a mobile network, an IT engineering will be the one who will link up and define the logic for how information should pass between stations and what is optimal solution for a problem where as CSE person will write the code to make his logic a reality. If you ask me, IT guys are excellent software managers. They know programming and they can handle managing the way programs are developed and implemented. They should be the ones with domain expertise (like how banks work, how share trading works, how hospital works etc) also.

Complexity: Lower medium difficult

Choosing a college: Fortunately, everyone owns a computer and that’s all you need to understand them. And adding to that, every college has enough resources for this course. All you need to look at is for the faculty, is the college subscribed to any advanced training programs (eg: KMIT is linked up with adobe and google programs) etc. Also look at previous placement track. If you don’t get placed when in college, it is not so easy when you come out of college.

Higher Education: Well, who would say higher education is bad? However, as per trends, if you do higher education in India you might probably end up again sitting with B.tech fresher for training and the job. There might be hardly any difference in your pay. You got to think of IITs and other top colleges if you want to go for higher education. Going abroad is a very open option and many exercise it.

Job Opportunities: Unfortunately, if you don’t find a job when in college (campus placements) don’t blame anyone if you don’t find a job after that. Sorry but this is a fact. Every department is eligible to apply for software jobs. All you need is a B.Tech. IT students have not shown trends where they explore opportunities out of software though some prefer getting into government jobs at times.

Will you enjoy this course? Yes you should. After all, this entire course is fun.  End of your b.tech you don’t need to be surprised if you have a million friends from different colleges. You can keep on attending events and seminars outside your college. If you are a techie freak, start writing some decent software when in college and who knows, you might become a Mark Zukerburg overnight.